Mestna knjižnica Kranj

To enter the toilet, place the RFID membership card on the RFID reader.

Youtube channel

[Channel Mestne knjižnice Kranj](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ0eHnTPFJwNvIc9BLhejuA)  

The library is open to all visitors: both members and non-members. Everyone can use the computers on the ground floor for free, on the first and second floors they are only for library members. You can also all use the newspaper reading room for free, where there is a daily newspaper and popular magazines and attend events and events.

Return book

You return the material to the return machine without a membership card. Place one copy of the material at a time in the opening.

[Obligations can be settled in cash, with various payment cards or online.](https://www.mkk.si/asset/LBfJirp4yKj3WBMvq)  

Return book

You return the material to the return machine without a membership card. Place one copy of the material at a time in the opening.

Material with sub-location Kr-warehouse

Magazines

Gorenjski glas newspaper

Machine for loan and renewal

Attach the RFID membership card to the RFID reader on the register. If you have a bar code membership card, insert it into the opening. To borrow, press the Rental button and place the material individually on the board. To extend the material, press the Extend button.

Machine for loan and renewal

Attach the RFID membership card to the RFID reader on the register. If you have a bar code membership card, insert it into the opening. To borrow, press the Rental button and place the material individually on the board. To extend the material, press the Extend button.

Info pillar

[We also invite you to the library with various events.](https://www.mkk.si/asset/nt4W9rQbaxeAK6siF)  

Exhibitions tab

The exhibitions that you can currently view in the library can be found under the [Exhibitions tab](https://www.mkk.si/asset/PphdR4rAcMZpvnLug).

["House Rules"](https://www.mkk.si/asset/f4xXn4SDWhMWQQeAE)  

Exhibitions tab

The exhibitions that you can currently view in the library can be found under the [Exhibitions tab](https://www.mkk.si/asset/PphdR4rAcMZpvnLug).

Machine for loan and renewal

Attach the RFID membership card to the RFID reader on the register. If you have a bar code membership card, insert it into the opening. To borrow, press the Rental button and place the material individually on the board. To extend the material, press the Extend button.

Info pillar

[We also invite you to the library with various events.](https://www.mkk.si/asset/nt4W9rQbaxeAK6siF)  

Kamra

E-Books

E-books can be borrowed by library members through the Biblos online eLibrary.

Exhibitions tab

The exhibitions that you can currently view in the library can be found under the [Exhibitions tab](https://www.mkk.si/asset/PphdR4rAcMZpvnLug).

Printbox for self printing.

[ONLINE Slovenian Biographical Lexicon (SBL) of Famous and Notable People from Slovenian Region and Slovenians Around the World](https://www.obrazislovenskihpokrajin.si/en/)  

Website

[Website of the Kranj City Library](https://www.mkk.si)  

Traveling library books

Self-service photocopier

[ONLINE Slovenian Biographical Lexicon (SBL) of Famous and Notable People from Slovenian Region and Slovenians Around the World](https://www.obrazislovenskihpokrajin.si/en/)

e-Resources

[Library members can access most e-resources via the MKK website anywhere, anytime. Access to the full network of Delo, Pravna praksa, Finance and Večer is limited to the library network.](https://www.mkk.si/asset/yRYZiWsftNLmHEs9n)  

[Price list](https://www.mkk.si/asset/sMzwrgjBK7f9AJ7BG)

Proposals for write-off

Information desk

Here you enroll in the library, get a membership card, settle financial obligations, pick up reserved material, forgotten and found things, get a code to use computers on the ground floor (for non-members), information about magazine and newspaper reading room, borrow e-readers, headphones for TV, we also help you to borrow and return materials at machines.

[House rules](https://www.mkk.si/asset/f4xXn4SDWhMWQQeAE)

Bukvarna

At Bukvarna, we offer you gifts that we have not included in the library collection, and material that we have excluded from the library collection. The material has a single price, 1 EUR per piece. You pay the purchase price at the information desk on the ground floor.

Internet

Free one-hour computer use for non-members as well.

Refund 24 hours

Outside the opening hours of the library, it is possible to return to the return mailbox at the entrance of the library. An RFID membership card is required to access the mailbox. The material will be recorded on the first following opening day. On this day, any payment for late returned material will also be charged.

Generation for generation: a memorial collection of the Gorenjska Librarians' Association

The transport-sorting system

The transport-sorting system takes the material to the ground floor and 2 floors and sorts it by thematic areas.

Internet

Free one-hour computer use for non-members as well.

[Rules on the general business conditions of the City Library of Kranj](https://www.mkk.si/asset/pFL6dFKH2DFsQmpBZ)  

The special ethnographic collection of Prešeren begins with the manuscript of Prešeren's Gloss on the facade of the Kranj City Library.

The text Glose, which is located on the eastern façade of the Kranj City Library, was written by France Prešeren in 1832 and is the first gloss in the Slovene language. Glosa is a poetic form that developed in Spain. It usually begins with a four-line motto, the verses of which are then repeated at the end of the four decimas that follow. He often discusses poetry, the position of the artist in society and the like.

Newspapers, magazines of past years that cannot be borrowed at home

Exhibitions tab

The exhibitions that you can currently view in the library can be found under the [Exhibitions tab](https://www.mkk.si/asset/PphdR4rAcMZpvnLug).

Ravnikar's department store from the 1970s is an example of architectural modernism, so there were special professional requirements and guidelines for its restoration.

The Globus department store (built in 1969) was the first department store in the former Yugoslavia. It is the work of architect Edvard Ravnikar. In Ljubljana, you are certainly familiar with Trg revolucije (Cankarjev dom, high-rise buildings TR2 and TR3, Maximarket), which is also Ravnikar's work. The premises of the Globus trading house were in the basement and on three floors above ground. Under the "floating" roof was a large parking area, accessible via a ramp that stretched across the entire width and height of the east side of the building, where today there is an extension with a glass facade (better lighting required renovation of the eastern part , which changed the building considerably). The building is included in the Register of Immovable Cultural Heritage. It is the first building in Slovenia for which a corten was used for the façade cladding. Ravnikar used it in response to the crisis that hit Slovenian ironworks. Korten is a steel to which copper and phosphorus have been added. Upon contact with air, rust is formed, which prevents further oxidation or rusting.

We prepare booklets, brochures, leaflets and other information printed materials for you.

Janitor's office

Totem

Info pillar

[We also invite you to the library with various events.](https://www.mkk.si/asset/nt4W9rQbaxeAK6siF)  

You can borrow an e-reader to read e-books at home.

Elevator

Children under the age of 12 can only use the lift if they are accompanied by an elderly person. Do not use the lift in case of fire. You can also use the stairs to access the floors. [Stairs](https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=NysWxUVkKFd&sr=-1.37,-1.45&ss=164)

Facebook of the Kranj City Library

[Kranj City Library](https://www.facebook.com/mestna.knjiznica.kranj)  

AED

An automatic defibrillator or AED is a portable electronic device that automatically detects a disturbed heart rhythm. [Its use is very simple.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAfghBMceuw)[Defibrillators in Kranj](https://www.kranj.si/kranj-moje-mesto/zdravstvo/defibrilatorji-v-kranju)  

Elevator

Children under the age of 12 can only use the lift if they are accompanied by an elderly person. Do not use the lift in case of fire. You can also use the stairs to access the floors. [Stairs](https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=NysWxUVkKFd&sr=-1.67,-1.55&ss=280)

[House rules](https://www.mkk.si/asset/f4xXn4SDWhMWQQeAE)

Enrollment

[Upon enrollment, you fill in and sign the application form and prove yourself with a photo ID. Adult readers who are not yet members of any of the units of the Kranj City Library can also join via the online registration.](https://www.mkk.si/asset/242TdB585acCgAwnM)  

Audio books

In addition to reading groups, there are a number of activities for the promotion of reading – the family reading project, intended for socializing and enjoying reading quality books in the family circle, storytelling hours and book riddles, reading recommendations for the adults and children.

Literary campaigns

Literary campaigns are intended to stimulate the reading of pieces of writing of the Slovenian authors. Readers who read 4 books and shared with us their feelings about the matter they read were rewarded with practical prizes.

Reading and Talking our Way to Wisdom

The reading clubs are intended for adults, the elderly, blind or partially-sighted persons, persons who have problems reading, and everyone interested in reading and discussing books. The clubs encourage the development of a culture of reading, interest in new book releases, conservation of cultural heritage and the folk tradition, critical thinking about books, and intergenerational solidarity. Nowadays, the library hosts 22 reading groups run by library staff and 24 trained volunteers. By organising the reading clubs, MKK wanted to draw attention to the importance of reading literacy throughout a person’s life, i.e. reading is good for us, it gives us pleasure, and taking part in a reading group is an irreplaceable way of socialising.

The International Literacy Association (ILA) honoured Kranj City Libray with an award for Innovative Reading Promotion in Europe 2015. 

The Family Reading

The Family Reading project is mainly focused on families with children from the age of two to eight. The project promotes quality leisure time, the opportunity for conversation, playing, learning, and entertainment within the family circle. One of the most important goals of the project is to raise children into readers because that will bring them benefits for a lifetime.

Librarians from Kranj City Library have prepared lists of quality literature for three age levels and a special list with recommendations for parents.

To participate in the Family Reading Project families fill in a form with the data of the participating family members and then receive a family reading booklet. The family borrows books from the list for the appropriate age level in the nearest library. After they read the selected book they talk about the content and answer the questions. At the end they evaluate books and fill in the attached coupons. At the next visit to the library they receive a small prize.

The project starts in the Fall and ends at the beginning of the Summer when we organize final event with which we celebrate all the good stories we read through the year.

In the future literacy will play a very important role in the development of local community, region and finally even country as a whole.

Quiz Modri pes

A Literary Quiz Modri pes is intended for the primary school children (6 to 15 years). It covers all the literary categories and educational materials. A quizzer learns about quality library materials in a funny way, visits, and explores the library, hangs out with literary heroes, acquires some new knowledge, and develops imagination. In a season, which is thematically connected, four quizzes with 12 questions are published. They can be taken throughout the year in the library or on the portal Modri pes. All the participants in quizzes are rewarded for reading books and correctly taking quizzes.

Library at the pool and library at the castle garden A part of the Kranj City Library is moved to the town’s swimming pool complex and to the garden of the Khislstein Castle in the old part of Kranj during the summer months. Visitors can leaf through a good book or a magazine while resting in the natural shade and enjoying some refreshing drinks.

Digital literacy courses

We prepare free digital literacy courses for the independent usage of up-to-date technologies and its functionalities: day-to-day searching on the World Wide Web, cloud computing, reading e-books, photo editing, socializing with virtual friends and providing e-services through smartphones. Content is tailored to all generations. Members who introduce themselves through the first steps, as well as those who are already advanced users of information technology, can be involved.

Individual assistance for the users of computer programs

A few hours a month we offer assistance in the use of standard computer programs. The answers to the questions are solved individually by experts of the computer training company.

Learning help

Primary and secondary school students are offered English language lessons. Elementary school students are also offered help in understanding and solving problems in mathematics, chemistry, physics, and biology.

Special collection Gorenjska

The collection contains local studies material with various contents about Gorenjci and Gorenjska region. The collection has been arising since 1975 and it includes nearly 6,500 titles.

Special collection Prešerniana

The collection has been arising from the middle of the previous century and it is dedicated to the Slovenian poet, the famous compatriot from Gorenjska, France Prešeren (1800-1849). It covers over 600 units of library material. We collect all (book and non-book) editions of Prešeren’s poems and works that speak about his creations and life.

Special collection Antiques

The collection contains books with the issue date before 1900 and it contains about 500 units.

Special Bibliophile’s collection

We include rare and valuable prints and facsimile editions of older books.

Events

We prepare storytelling hours and creative workshops for children every week. We organize puppet shows in cooperation with various puppet houses. Children are offered various workshops weekly, such as We play with wooden toys, We play parlor games, Taking the quiz, Socializing with therapeutic dogs … 

Exhibition area

The library also presents an exhibition area every day, where exhibitions of famous painters and illustrators are on display. We organize thematic exhibitions and celebrate anniversaries and other celebrations at smaller exhibition places.

We organize library guides for the groups announced in advance, also adapted for children.

Visually impaired

Visually impaired The service is meant for the blind and visually-impaired people and for other people with reading disabilities. The service includes:  - significantly larger prints,  - prints with dyslexia scripts,  - audiobooks and magazines,  - professional literature to help people with reading disabilities,  - literature for deaf and hearing-impaired. In addition to the library material intended for borrowing, we provide access to equipment which enables visually-impaired people with high visual disturbances to read books and newspapers in the corner.

Digital library

dLib The Digital Library of Slovenia – dLib.si provides access to a wide range of digital contents in fields of science, art and culture. As an online source of information, it constitutes an essential component of the modern educational and scientific research process, and is one of the cornerstones of the information society development. Moreover, it ensures preservation of the Slovenian written cultural heritage in digital form, thus digital contents of the past and present will be accessible to future generations.

Kamra

Regional portal Kamra accumulates digitised local cultural content from libraries and other local cultural institutions. Digital content is thus available through one single place and created by the most competent organisations in their respective fields. Kamra provides them with free infrastructure and also trains new partners, so they can present digitised content of mostly local significance and publish it on the internet. The content stored on Kamra is presented in the form of stories with supporting narrations, corresponding digitalised objects and metadata. Kamra allows users to discover stories that are significant, interesting and in local community’s interest. Users can now access content that was previously hidden in library storage rooms, archives and museums, associations’ archives or even in the drawers of school staff rooms. The content on Kamra is also available through the European digital library, Europeana.

Europeana

Europeana works with thousands of European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education and research. Europeana Collections provides access to over 50 million digitised items: books, music, artworks and more, with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for.

Biblos

BIBLOS is the first Slovenian eLibrary and eBookshop with e-books. Slovenian public libraries, which are included in the Biblos system, enable their members to borrow e-books from the Slovenian e-book publishers.

PressReader

The Library Press Display collection releases over 3,000 national, regional and local newspapers and magazines from Europe, Asia, Australia, Latin, and Anglo-America. Altogether, more than 100 countries and more than 60 languages.

Faces of Slovenian regions

Faces of Slovenian regions Obrazi slovenskih pokrajin is an online reciprocal biographical lexicon of well-known inhabitants of Slovenia. It includes information about personalities born in individual regions of Slovenia, who lived and studied here, and, above all, their work was marked by the development of the landscape in the history and the present: writers, poets, literary and art historians and critics, journalists, painters, musicians, architects, priests, scientists, researchers, professors, economists, politicians, athletes, etc. The website is managed by the Kranj City Library in collaboration with other libraries, museums, schools and other institutions which also add the contents.

EBSCOhost

Through the use of computers, library users can access up to 5,000 full-text newspapers in the business, humanities, and social sciences fields, as well as full texts of popular magazines and the most important foreign newspapers. The service brings fresh business information from all over the world on daily basis. In addition to the extensive collection of medical scientific articles, it also provides health reference information intended for the general public. The following full-text databases are available: Business Source Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Newspaper Source, Regional Business News, Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition, MEDLINE, ERIC (Education Resource Information Center), Health Source: Consumer Edition, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA), GreenFILE The EIFL Direct (Electronic Information for Libraries Direct) project, the Information Consortium for Libraries. The latter is a joint project of the Open Society Foundations of the Open Society Institute, EBSCO Publishing and libraries of 39 countries.

Projects: The Europe Challenge (2021)

Seven public libraries in seven different cities and towns across Europe work together to involve citizens more in shaping our public space.February 2021, Amsterdam The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and the Amsterdam Public Libraries (OBA), in collaboration with Public Libraries 2030 and Democratic Society, kick-off the development of the Europe Challenge 2021: How do different communities around Europe contribute to the building of public spaces? What Is the role of public libraries in this?The Europe Challenge aims to address some of Europe’s pressing challenges in a networked way, by working with libraries – small and big across Europe.The Europe Challenge is engaging and enabling libraries and their local communities to redesign the current and future meaning of public space, with diverse communities from across Europe together. Participating libraries are:DOKK1 Aarhus Public Library (DK), Valmiera Public Library (LV), Kranj City Library (SLO), De Krook Ghent (B), Berlin Public Library (DE) & Saint Boi Public Library (ES).

Projects: Cultural Heritage for the future: discover, share and learn (2018–2020)

In the field of adult education libraries play an important role. Libraries are working directly with communities and formal education institutions. Libraries use cultural heritage while trying to promote social cohesion, communality and cooperation between different members of community. It is particularly important for libraries to find new ways to promote lifelong learning while using available and well-organised resources of cultural heritage.Partners: Vilnius County Public Library (Litva) – coordinator Public Library of Hiiu Municipality (Estonija) – partner Vaggeryd Public Library (Švedska) – partner Herning Public Library (Danska) – partner Kranj City Library (Slovenija) – partnerObjectives To use social and educational value of European cultural heritage in order to motivate adults to become involved into learning process and share their experiences To apply not yet used and innovative tools in the field of cultural heritage in order to motivate involvement and cooperation of participants To strengthen the competences of librarians as educators and andragogues, to share international experience and to create international network k of professionals.

Projects: Family literacy works! (1.10. 2016–31. 3. 2019)

Family Literacy Works! is a transnational project of five EU countries; Romania, Portugal, Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Partner organizations in the project determine the state of development of family literacy in these countries. In the project, we are proposing to define what competences family literacy facilitators need and design a training programme to develop those competences.Purpose and goals Literacy is considered a factor in the economic competitiveness of a country. People with better literacy are more aware of the world and of themselves, better at understanding new ideas and change, better at judging the value of things; they have better health, higher income, and better participation in civic life than people with lower literacy skills.

Projects: KC-MEM (2014)

Key Competences and Historical Memory The introduction of historical thinking and memory in adult learning is a way of rooting the actions of the present in the past and raising awareness of its consequences for the future.In December 2012 the partnership finished the Sharing European Memories at School project which aimed to design a cross-curricular methodology to work with historical memory in the classroom.The project results have proved that memory is a powerful learning environment to develop social and civic competences, as well as to strengthen the sense of belonging to the group whose memories are studied. Memory also makes relevant personal, family or community experience, giving a practical application to historical knowledge.Due to the successful application of historical memory in school education and the positive feedback from different stakeholders, the partnership decided to transfer this experience into adult education.

Projects:SEM.BET (2014)

Sharing European Memories BETween Generations A group of European organizations were interested in how historical memory is formed, how it is transmitted and how it may be used for intergenerational learning.Memory and learning Memories are constantly being made and forgotten. There are individual memories, which are your memories, and social memories.Social memory, where you share a common history with a specific group of people, is crucial in creating and maintaining a sense of individual and community identity.Intergenerational learning describes the way that people of all ages can learn together and from each other. It is not only about knowledge, but also promoting mutual understanding and developing social capital and social cohesion in our ageing societies.The social and cultural diversity; the individualism of our society and the ICT and mass media have changed the role of the family in the transmission of cultural, ethical and social values.Building and sharing the social memory related to a period of time or a specific community aspect is a way of transmitting knowledge, attitudes and skills from the elders to the new generations, which before was made within the family context.

Projects:

SEM@s (2011–2012) Sharing European Memories at School (1. 1. 2011–31. 12. 2012)A group of European organizations were interested in how historical memory is formed, how it is transmitted and what its role and influence is on our society.Memory and History Historical memory is how we remember the past and in what form. The terms ‘history’ and ‘memory’ have very different meanings.History is a record of significant past events but is not a neutral record. This record will always be incomplete and problematic.Memories are constantly being made and forgotten. They can be manipulated and changed. There are individual memories, which are your memories, and social memories. Social memory, where you share a common history with a specific group of people, is crucial in creating and maintaining a sense of individual and community identity.We must be aware that disagreements about what events occurred in the past and how we should remember them are common. Powerful groups in society can dominate the stories that are heard.The field of historical memory is often linked to commemoration, by way of events, places, texts, artefacts and symbols that remain significant to the group. The past decades have seen great changes across the world, such as mass migrations and globalisation, which lead people to question their identity. Who are we? Where am I from? How should I act in the present and future?